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Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” Grift: Con of the Century
Donald Trump

Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” Grift: Con of the Century

H. Scott Prosterman

The whole thing is a front for Trump’s real estate development ambitions for a Gaza beachfront resort.

Australia’s Albanese should Raise Israeli Crimes During Herzog Visit

Australia’s Albanese should Raise Israeli Crimes During Herzog Visit

02/06/2026 By Human Rights Watch

Trump’s $1.5 Trillion Military: Such stuff as Nightmares are made on

Trump’s $1.5 Trillion Military: Such stuff as Nightmares are made on

02/06/2026 By William J. Astore

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Christian Priests Brawl at Jesus' Birthplace

Christian Priests Brawl at Jesus’ Birthplace

The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem has now seen its annual brawl between Armenian and Eastern Orthodox priests, who are jointly responsible for its […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egyptian Court orders Military to Cease Virginity Tests

Egyptian Court orders Military to Cease Virginity Tests

An Egyptian court has ordered the Egyptian military to cease subjecting arrested female protesters to virginity tests. The ruling is a strike for women’s rights, […]

Juan Cole

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Iranian Navy Menaces  Oil Exports from Hormuz

Iranian Navy Menaces Oil Exports from Hormuz

United Nations and United States financial and economic sanctions on Iran have probably gone about as far as they can in damaging Iran’s economy. They […]

Juan Cole

Israel/Palestine
Israeli Hardliners attack Police over Women’s Segregation

Israeli Hardliners attack Police over Women’s Segregation

Haredi Jews clashed with police on Monday in Beit Shemesh, Israel, leaving one policeman wounded, over the issue of segregation of women. They shouted “Nazis!” […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
2011 Revolutions and the End of Republican Monarchy

2011 Revolutions and the End of Republican Monarchy

Egyptian reformer Saad Eddin Ibrahim observed in the late 1990s and 2000 that the Arab world was beginning to be characterized by a bizarre gryphon-like […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Christians in a Changing Arab World are Making their own Destinies

Christians in a Changing Arab World are Making their own Destinies

The press is full of stories this Christmas season about the negative effects on Middle Eastern Christians of the Arab upheavals of 2011. This “vale […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Syria Teeters:  25 Dead in Protests, 40 Killed in Bombings

Syria Teeters: 25 Dead in Protests, 40 Killed in Bombings

On Friday afternoon and evening, Friday protests continued in Syria, according to al-Hayat writing in Arabic. The opposition maintains that the Syrian army killed some […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
Bombings Roil Iraq as Sunni Arabs Re-arm

Bombings Roil Iraq as Sunni Arabs Re-arm

The death toll in Thursday’s bombings and attacks in Baghdad and environs rose to about 67 dead, with hundreds wounded. Most of the attacks honed […]

Juan Cole

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Suleimani:  The US Decline in the Middle East

Suleimani: The US Decline in the Middle East

The USG Open Source Center translates an article from the Persian press about Qasim Suleimani, the head of the Jerusalem (Qods) Brigade of the Iranian […]

Juan Cole

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